MAAH Stone Book Award

The Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award is an annual prize that encourages scholarship and writing within the field of African American history and culture by awarding a $50,000 winning prize and two $10,000 finalist prizes for exceptional adult non-fiction books written in a literary style.

Jurors

  • Dana Williams, PhD

    Professor of African American Literature Dean of the Graduate School Howard University

  • William Sturkey, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil

  • Charles W. McKinney, Jr., PhD

    Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies, Associate Professor of History, Rhodes College

  • Courtney R. Baker, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Riverside

  • Jesse McCarthy, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Honorary Committee

  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Chair)

    Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Gary Bennett

    Professor and Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education, Duke University

  • Cathleen Douglas Stone

    President, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation

  • Paula J. Giddings

    Writer/Scholar

  • Paula Johnson

    President, Wellesley College

  • Ibram X. Kendi

    Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Director , Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

  • Suzanne Nossel

    CEO, PEN America

  • Lee Pelton

    President & CEO, The Boston Foundation

Winners

  • 2023: Thulani Davis

    The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

  • 2022: Howard W. French

    Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

  • 2021: Daphne A. Brooks

    Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

  • 2020: Jelani M. Favors

    Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

  • 2019: Julius S. Scott

    The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

  • 2018: Tera W. Hunter

    Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free: Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Finalists

  • 2023: Kerri K. Greenidge

    The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

  • 2023: Claude Johnson

    The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era

  • 2022: Jarvis R. Givens

    Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

  • 2022: Tiya Miles

    All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake

  • 2021: Walter Johnson

    The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

  • 2021: Dan Royles

    To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS

  • 2020: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

    Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

  • 2020: Tiffany Lethabo King

    The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

  • 2019: Mary Schmidt Campbell

    An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden

  • 2019: Kellie Carter Jackson

    Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

  • 2018: Lawrence P. Jackson

    Chester B. Himes: A Biography

  • 2018: Jeffrey C. Stewart

    The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke